Hi Michael, Just curious, but is there a reason you're not just doing http://study.library.nova.edu (sans the /whatever)?
Rosy On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Ellen Wilson <ewil...@southalabama.edu>wrote: > I'd be inclined to go with "study," since that's the function the users > care about. That said, if your students are like ours, they are not going > to pay one bit of attention to the name of the link. I'm amazed how many > clicks students will go through to get to their university email, for > example. > > Ellen > > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Michael Schofield <mschofi...@nova.edu > >wrote: > > > What’s up everyone, > > > > > > > > We are homegrowing a study room reservation system and we’re within a > week > > of making it live—but still in beta—to the public. Right now, on our > > staging > > box, our URI looks like something.library.nova.edu/room-res. /room-res > > doesn’t mean anything, to me. The public URI will be similarly long, like > > somethingelse.library.nova.edu/whatever. > > > > > > > > Any recommendations or experience with your own reservation links? IMHO, > it > > should be simple, since the link is already going to be on the long end. > > Right now I’m vying for /reservations, but TBH this system is just for > > public study rooms and not for our larger conference rooms – I’m not sure > > our primary users [the students and faculty] will care, but we’ll > > definitely > > be reminded of that technicality by other librarians J. I don’t like > > /studyrooms, but it’s the best I’ve got since I’m avoiding hyphens. > > > > > > > > Just picking your brains. Thanks! > > > > > > > > Michael Schofield(@nova.edu) | @gollydamn | Front-End Librarian à > > www.ns4lib.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Ellen Knowlton Wilson > Instructional Services Librarian > Room 250, University Library > University of South Alabama > 5901 USA Drive North > Mobile, AL 36688 > (251) 460-6045 > Please note new email address: > ewil...@southalabama.edu >
